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“If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”— C.S. Lewis

“Be guided by beauty. I really mean that. Pretty much everything I’ve done has had an aesthetic component, at least to me. Now you might think ‘well, building a company that’s trading bonds, what’s so aesthetic about that?’ But, what’s aesthetic about it is doing it right. Getting the right kind of people, and approaching the problem, and doing it right […] it’s a beautiful thing to do something right.”— Jim Simons

“But for such a man, truth is all one, and mathematics is but one of the mirrors in which it is reflected - perhaps more purely than it is elsewhere.”— André Weil [talking about Max Dehn]

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Chapter 2.

For this was your decree—and indeed it is so—that every disordered mind becomes its own punishment.—Augustine of Hippo

“… and whatever a man knows, whatever is not mere rumbling and roaring that he has heard, can be said in three words.”—Kürnberger.

“Beware of what you become in pursuit of what you want”—Jim Rohn

“Be fresh and eager every morning, and tired and satisfied every night.”—Kent Beck